Hey i was just trying out the civilization demo. I am a very fond player of rts games like age of empires,command and conquers. Civilization is as if risk type fetaures embeeded in age of empires. I found "risk" more "near to home" than "civilization"(that i have played risk several times with my cousins). Civilization is a pretty and famous games with good music but i just cannot swallow it.

I feel that risk is very much a game of it's own and much different to Civilisations, the fact that there are multiple ways to win, multiples way to get a better army, and no roll of a dice to worry about, Civ for me is the better choice, though I do love risk as well (played two games just a fortnight ago and won both infact), Civ will take far longer than a Risk. and if you ever fall for the 'just one more turn' routine, you may never be able to put down civ ever again...